Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti
Subtitle: sive transitus ad occasum suprà terras Americanas in Chinam atq, Iaponem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo : item, exegesis Regi Hispaniae facta, super tractu recens detecto, in quintâ orbis parte, cui nomen Avstralis incognita : cum descriptione terrarum Samoiedarum & Tingoesiorum in Tartariâ ad ortum Freti VVaygats sitarum nuperq, sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum.
Contributors: Hudson, Henry, d. 1611.; Gerritsz., Hessel, 1581?-1632; Queiros, Pedro Fernandes de, d. 1615.; Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622.; Massa, Isaac Abrahamszoon, 1586-1643.
Series: CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 93862
Publisher: Ex officina Hefselij Gerardi
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Amsterodami
Language: lat
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration -- English.; Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- English.
Notes: Translated by Reiner Telle - British Library Catalogue, 1975.

First printed account of Hudson's discoveries in the Canadian Arctic, and the first map of Hudson's Bay and adjacent territory.

Second Latin ed., 1st issue; 2nd issue of the Latin ed. has appendix of 2 leaves at end. First Latin ed. published: Amsterdam, 1612.

Edited by H. Gerritsz.

References: Alden, J.E. European Americana, no. 613/63; Sabin 33491; Cf. JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, v. 2, p. 95-96 (2nd ed., 2nd issue)

Text in Latin.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1993.

[47] p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.